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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “Don’t Fuck in the Woods”

As you can pretty much assume by the title, this film is a delightful family comedy that is sure to be an instant classic.   Director Shawn Burkett takes us to a world that any horny teenage boy would love to live in. With no shortage of reasons why any and all women in this

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “Dog Dayz” (short)

Dog Dayz is a short film that takes place primarily in the car, the broke down car, of a couple an anniversary date. The bulk of the story is the typical relationship banter between Martin (Gerard Miller) and Rhona (Nicola Clark) that dissolves into a bickering which hints that these two have spent a lot

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “Name” (short)

What’s in a name? For our lead protagonist, the one thing she can’t remember about the man she loved, a man who died violently from an outbreak that decimated the human race, is his name. All the memories of shared laughs, tears, and lust are there — but why can she not just remember his

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “The Mayo Conspiracy”

Promoted as a mockumentary of the seedy underbelly of the condiment industry, The Mayo Conspiracy highlights the cartel referred to as “Big Mayo” and their grip on America’s condiment usage. How much power could Big Mayo hold over the public? If you believe the facts revealed in this film, Big Mayo had hands in some

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “The Throbbit”

I know what you’re thinking already, yes “The Throbbit” is a “re-imagining” of “The Hobbit”, but definitely not the XXX version I originally thought by the title. This feature-length spoof film just barely ranks around a PG-13. It contains a good bit of adult humor, but in the way of innuendos and word-play rather than

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “The Jersey Devil”

Finally, a Faith-Based Christian Film with some meat to it! “The Jersey Devil” plays fast and loose with the details of any particular biblical source, but that doesn’t make this film any less worthy as a spiritual guide to help viewers on a path towards an afterlife without all the guilt associated with following any

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “Nuclear Neighborhood”

“Nuclear Neighborhood” is a film that looks & feels like it came from graduates of Troma University; a sci-fi/horror film made with little budget but plenty of fun and creativity. Within no time, Matthew J Oliver’s film jumps right into the meat & bones of the story. Dan’s girlfriend is kidnapped by a strange man

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “Malady”

“Malady” is a dark & moody film, slow to build, and very light on the dialogue, but luckily there’s plenty of sex to stave off any depression. It’s on the verge of being an art film, as the nearly 1hr-40min. running time has only about 15 minutes of story within, and even adding to that

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Levi Anderson

An Interview with David Conley

With “Mad Max: Fury Road” currently blowing audiences hair back nationwide, I wanted to revisit another post-apocalyptic action film, very much inspired by George Millers previous Mad Max films, “Bounty Killer” (2013). You can read two previous reviews of the film itself here and here, but for this issue I sat down with cinematographer David

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “Wipeout” (short)

A man with chronic Obsessive Compulsive Disorder falls in love with a beautiful female jogger, and takes up running in a bid to win her heart.

Made in 7 days in conjunction with the Aarhus Short Film Challenge 2014 in Denmark, this silent film is full of heart and plenty of chuckles. 

Greg Haiste plays the

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: The Unearthing

The Unearthing is the first feature film from writer/director Tristan James Jensen. It plays like a PG version of Stephen King’s “IT” – a small group of random teens become friends, discover love for one another, and fight a supernatural evil. Unlike “IT”, however, “The Unearthing” is not a horror film, but a coming-of-age tale

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “World Spins Madly On” (short)

In the 6-minute short “World Spins Madly On,” the main character is too high to do anything but stare into space for a good long while before a note he wrote to himself drops from the sky. Eventually, at a crosswalk later on, some jokesters in line behind him break him from his purple haze,

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sidfilmz

REVIEW: “Reverb”

Pill-popper Helia has just lost her boyfriend, and is living in a big empty house all by herself. The first night we meet Helia, she is annoyed by late-night phone call attempts from her ex, “Cupcake” (although she denies to friends having heard from him). Soon, though, she is soon more disturbed by a creepy

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sidfilmz

REVIEW: “Sad Clown” (short)

What do you do if your job is to make people laugh, but you can’t find joy for yourself? The character of the sad clown is a well known one, and a common story of the character goes: ——A certain man made an appointment to see a doctor. He arrived and said to him, “Doctor,

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “Bounty Killer”

“A fun-as-f*** thrill-ride through a dystopian wasteland” In an alternate universe (or the near future), where corporations have taken control over world governments and destroyed civilization through the latest batch of corporate sponsored world wars, the remaining people’s only hope lay in the hands of a select crew of Bounty Killers. These bounty killers are

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sidfilmz

REVIEW: “A Killer Conversation”

“What’s the use of having an ‘almost’ shitty life? The ‘almost’ is hardly any consolation, is it?” A Killer Conversation, written by Michael Haberfelner and directed by David V G Davies, stars Melanie Denholme (also serving as producer), Ryan Hunter, and Rudy Barrow. It takes less than 1 minute for Karl (Hunter) to hear a

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Levi Anderson

REVIEW: “How I Dumped My Ex-Boyfriend’s Body”

TAGLINE: “The perfect crime… kind of… not really” [from the filmmaker] An action comedy from Fat Foot Films, directed by Dennis Nadeau, “How I Dumped My Ex-Boyfriend’s Body” (HIDMEBB) tells the story of Maxine and Shae as they look for a way to discretely dispose of a dead body, Maxine having accidentally killed her ex-boyfriend

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sidfilmz

REVIEW: “54 Days”

“A successful experiment in rugged filmmaking.” At the beginning of this gritty Sci-Fi drama, diplomats are fleeing Beijing and Moscow as Washington is increasing sanctions against the East. Meanwhile, a posh party among social elites is getting underway on a downtown Sydney rooftop. Just as things seem to be getting off to a good start

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